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ProvBench, Provenance Benchmark Challenge, co-located at BigProv'13 (The
International Workshop on Managing and Querying Provenance Data at Scale)
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Final Call for Expression of Interest
Important Dates
- November 22, 2012 (Extended): Expression of interest (for access
request to controlled submission areas)
- December 1, 2012: Deadline for submission of extended abstract (2
page descriptions)
- January 23, 2013: Close submission to ProvBench@BigProv'13
- March 22, 2013: Presentation of the First Bench result
Link for Submission
- Expression of interest: email provbench-admin at googlegroups dot com
to request access to the submission repository
- https://github.com/provbench/bigprov.git: for submission of provenance
traces and extended abstract
Where: Genova, Italy
Collocated with the International Workshop on Managing and Querying
Provenance Data at Scale (BigProv'13), held in conjunction with
EDBT/ICDT 2013
Benchmark web site:
https://sites.google.com/site/provbench/provbench-at-bigprov-13
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OBJECTIVES
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The goal of this first ProvBench event is to start the collection
provenance traces that are publicly accessible and can be used for
benchmarking experiments in the near future. Definition of benchmarking
metrics and criteria for a benchmark suite will emerge in the future series.
The submission will be shared on the ProvBench web site along with some
descriptive metrics and will be the basis of the subsequent steps of the
benchmarking exercise (query, analysis etc.).
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SUBMISSIONS
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Submission will take place at two stages:
1) Submission of expression of Interest
2) Submission of extended abstract and provenance traces
By November 15, 2012 please email provbench-admin at googlegroups dot
com for your expression of interest and request for your access to the
Github repository (for submitting provenance traces and abstract).
All submissions to the BigProv'13 workshop are strongly encouraged to
submit their provenance traces to ProvBench. Submissions can also opt to
make their traces available in an alternative public online space, but
they must be open accessible. All submissions without open accessible
provenance traces will be rejected.
We encourage the use of the W3C Prov model, but authors can use any
provenance model of their choice.
The extended abstract should be formatted using the ACM Proceedings
format and will be reviewed by the ProvBench organisation and steering
committee. Accepted submissions will be included in the official EDBT
workshop proceedings, along with the proceedings of the BigProv'13. Each
submission should be less than 2 pages and should contain the following
sections:
- Summary of submission: including information about the provenance
traces generated in the format of the following table (see also the
readme.txt, mentioned above). Please see the metrics specified at
https://sites.google.com/site/provbench/provbench-at-bigprov-13.
- Experience statement: summarising the experience of the authors in
generating such traces,
- Application: describing the applications that the authors anticipate
will benefit from such traces,
- Possible provenance queries: listing in English the possible
provenance queries that can be executed against their provenance
information,
- Coverage of PROV starting-point concepts/properties, see metrics
specified at https://sites.google.com/site/provbench/provbench-at-bigprov-13
Each submission will be allocated a team folder in the Github
repository: https://github.com/provbench/bigprov.git:
- Provenance traces can be submitted in the form of a folder or a zipped
file to the team folder, along with the extended abstract.
- If provenance traces are made open accessible in other public space,
only the extended abstract needs to be submitted to the Github repository.
We provide a template readme.txt file (to be found on the ProvBench web
site) that can be used to specify license and ownership of the traces,
as well as information about the authors, the date in which each
provenance trace was produced/submitted, the tool(s) used for their
generation, the link to the provenance traces (if not in the Github
repository), and among other things.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
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For the first series of ProvBench we would like to open submissions to a
broad range of audience who would be interested in creating a first-ever
community-based provenance corpus for benchmarking and for bootstrapping
provenance-based research and applications. Anyone is invited to
contribute, be a content provider or a technologist. A content provider
can be the owner of a web site or a blog, scientists or data providers
of a dataset of any structured format, being relational, RDF, XML, RDFa,
tab-delimited or others. A technologist can be a developer of a
provenance publication application or plug-in, an administrator of a web
site, or computer scientists who are interested in provenance-related
research or applications, or just generally enthusiastic about provenance.
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FORMAT
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Each submission group can give a 5-10 minutes talk at the ProvBench
session at BigProv'13. Teams who cannot make the trip can be represented
by the organisers. A summary of the submission will also be presented in
the BigProv workshop.
The provenance traces will be advertised in the ProvBench website as
well as in other communication channels.
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ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
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* Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester, UK
* Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK
* Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, iSOCO, Spain
* Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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* Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK
* Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, CA